John
You could, of course, seek out the work of F E Brightman: The English Rite
Being a Synopsis of the Sources and Revisions of the Book of Common Prayer,
Rivingtons, 2 vols, 1915, which gives the original spelling texts of the
editions of 1549, 1552 and the Annexed Book of 1661 plus references in notes to
the contributions of the intermediate texts of 1559, 1604 and 1637. That, of
course is not a text designed for liturgical use but a synopsis for scholarly
study.
On quite another matter, that came up in the list earlier this year,
Brightman has in his Appendix a section on the "Bidding of the Bedes":
See Volume 2, pp. 1020-1045 - on pages 1032ff, he prints "The Bedes on the
sondaye" from The Festyuall printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1532, f.
cxciiij.
Gordon Plumb
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
As Medieval Religion ended messily and indeterminately in
England and
Wales (it ended remarkably peacefully, and overnight, in
Scotland)
perhaps I could mention the Book of Common Prayer, as it is not
obviously not medieval?
Hard on the heels of the 400th anniversary
of the King James Bible comes
the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Prayer
Book. To coincide with that has
been published Brian Cummings's edition
"The Book of Common Prayer: The
Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662" (OUP, 2011)
ISBN 978-0199207176
Rowan Williams (bless him!) chose it as one of his
"books of the year"
in the TLS acouple of weeks ago... The title is
somewhat misleading,
however: it gives (uniquely, I think) a complete
original-spelling
edition of the 1662 text, but the 1549 and 1559 texts
are severely
truncated, and the 1552 text is not included. So you need to
supplement
it with E.C.S. Gibson's 1910/1948 Everyman "The First and
Second Prayer
Books of Edward VI", last re-issued by the Prayer Book
Society in 1999,
which gives the full text of the 1549 edition and a
shortened version of
that of 1552 (but which can be completed using the
1549 text), as well
as full texts of the 1550 and 1552 Ordinals (the
Psalter is not,
however, included.)
For 1559 text, I recommend John
E. Booty's "The Book of Common Prayer,
1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book"
(University of Virginia Press, 1976),
re-issued in 2005 with a pretty
vacuous Foreword by Judith Maltby. That
is a modern spelling (and American
spelling at that) edition, but rather
more seriously it omits the 1561
Calendar and the Ordinal - for these
Booty blithely directs us to W.K.
Clay's "Liturgical Services: Liturgies
and Occasional Forms of Prayer Set
Forth in the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth", published by the Parker Society in
1847!
So I end up having to purchase volumes of the Parker Society
(available
surprisingly cheaply) - and that was one rabbit hole I never
imagined
disappearing down.
Now I only need a 1539 Great Bible for
the lessons for Mattins and
Evensong...
--
John
Briggs
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